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In the Iliad, Bellerophon delivers a letter. Does this indicate during the period that writing was lost in ancient Greece that people still knew about writing? That is, no one knew how to write, but still knew it existed because of contacts with civilizations like Egypt?

by /u/Seswatha in /r/AskHistorians

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